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DimDim

Starbuck — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:24:56 -0700

Can anyone say for sure if DimDim will or will not install at DH? I'd think not. It seems to have a number of server-side dependencies.

http://www.dimdim.com/opensource/dimdim_open_source_community_edition.html

Cant install PHPBB3

Omb — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:49:14 -0700

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Hi.. Trying to install PHPBB.. But at the datebase install it says: Could not connect to the database, see error message below.
Access denied for user 'zombiesweden'@'apache2-quack.zack.dreamhost.com' (using password: YES)

I write evrything correctly but it still wont work.. What am I doing wrong?

svn

stian — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:04:34 -0700

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Hi.

I'm using svn for my projects and well frankly I started using first when I became a dreamhost customer, before that I stuck with cvs as I've done since the stoneages ;)

Anyways now and then it completely locks and says stuff is outdated and refuse to commit. It does not help at all to use the --force flag.

Is there anyway you can force svn to commit? or how do one resolve these issues?

when svn refuse to commit the repository has basicly commited suicide(lol :) ) on my part, because atm the only way I know how to fix the problem is to remove the repsoitory and create a new one (loosing all previous versions)..

cheers,
Stian

Custom PHP Install

Bluto — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:57:46 -0700

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I'm having difficulty installing a custom php5.
When I run the custom scripts, all seems to go fine, but... the install attempts to create a new www directory for the php.ini file.
I set the domain in the script to www.mydomain.
I did not however change the paths in the script where it says for example:
" # Where do you want all this stuff built? I'd recommend picking a local
# filesystem.
# ***Don't pick a directory that already exists!*** We clean up after
# ourselves at the end!
SRCDIR=${HOME}/source".

If my directory tree looks like this through shell ftp:
/home/.ewing/dcgspot/www.mydomain, what should I insert before "/source" in the script for it to install to the proper destination, with the php.ini file landing in the correct location?

Need a widget like Blogger's new "My Blog List"

kevinandamanda — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:19:51 -0700

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I love Blogger's new "My Blog List" feature. It's like an advanced blogroll- under the name of the blog, it shows the title of their most recent post, and how long ago it was posted (2 hours ago, 2 days ago, etc). Then it sorts the blogs by order of most recent update, instead of just regular alphabetical order.

http://buzz.blogger.com/2008/06/show-off-your-favorite-blogs-with-blog.html

Alas, I have Wordpress. I spent *all night* looking for a similar widget / plugin / whatever, but couldn't find anything.

Is there anything that's similar to this that I could use in wordpress? Any ideas at all?

Thanks so much for your help :)

DH for prado

sicute — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:12:37 -0700

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dear all

how to make prado working in dh, i try basic sintact can't.

[enzo]$ php prado/framework/prado-cli.php -c hello
Could not open input file: prado/framework/prado-cli.php
[enzo]$ php prado-cli.php -c blog

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /home/.sanders/mydomain/mydomain.com/prado/framework/prado-cli.php on line 21
[enzo]$

My regards

Pligg and insecure settings.php

rspx0 — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:02:36 -0700

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Hi -- I've installed Pligg using an advanced one-click install and it's working like a dream.

I've been attempting to secure things. One issue is worrying me -- settings.php is viewable by the world. Just type example.com/settings.php and you get the following in your browser window:

Warning: include_once(mnmincludesettings_from_db.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/.servername/username/example.com/settings.php on line 6

Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening 'mnmincludesettings_from_db.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/.servername/username/example.com/settings.php on line 6

I've removed any personally identifying material in the path for posting here in this forum, but included is the name of DreamHost's server, then my DreamHost username. Although not an immediate security problem, that's perhaps too much detail to be giving away.

Over at the Pligg site they say to change permissions on the file, but this makes no difference with Dreamhost because (I think) of the way it's setup. Even with permissions of -rw------- (as it has right now), the file can still be viewed.

So can anybody help? Is there a .htaccess trick to be done here? I've tried disabling PHP errors but it makes no difference, leading me to wonder if this is actually a PHP error.

Edited by rspx0 on 07/20/08 07:05 AM (server time).

HOW TO Upgrade OpenX

username — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:29:55 -0700

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Hi all,

I just installed OpenX from the 1-Click today, and as soon as I finished it I got a message that there was a new version available. I had a hell of a time upgrading to the new version, so I thought it might help others if I posted what I did here.

install path:
mysite.com/openx/

first copy everything from mysite.com/openx/ to mysite.com/openx_backup

then delete everything in the original directory
and untar the update into that directory

now copy the 2 configuration files from mysite.com/openx_backup/var/ to mysite.com/openx/var/.
Both configuration files will have the term "config" in their names. There should be like a default.config.php and a longer-named-file with some portion or all of your website's address in it.

Point your browser to mysite.com/openx to be taken to the install wizard. Go through the agreements and then at the bottom of the check page make sure it says it has detected an older version of OpenX and it can be upgraded.

Then go on to the database page (should already be configured since you are updating). Press continue. You almost definately will get something that says "Failed to upgrade configuration file."

Now go delete the file called UPGRADE which is located at mysite.com/openx/var/UPGRADE

Again, point your browser to mysite.com/openx and you should be logged in to the updated version (I am just hoping this really is completely installed correctly).

Also, on a side note, when I installed OpenX, I did so on a subdomain that was all to itself (e.g. openx.mysite.com) and I was a bit unsure of creating a directory since DreamHost seems to keep all the domains in our home directories and I am not totally sure how DH works. But I went ahead and made the dir and it worked fine.

Embedding flash video into wordpress post

MPenguin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:51:50 -0700

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I've been trying for a day to figure out how to host a .flv file on my site and embed it into a Wordpress post. My directory's are setup as follows:

/mysite.com/ - html/wp files
/mysite.com/wp-content/videos - directory of the .flv videos
/mysite.com/flash/ - directory of the .swf player and .js script

I'm writing a blog post in Wordpress and would like to embed the flash video. I don't want to host it on youtube or google video or anywhere else - I just want to keep it on my site and host it from there.

I've tried the WP-FLV plugin, Flash video plugin, and Kimli flash video plugin. Either I don't have them configured correctly, or they just aren't working.

Any help on directory structure, plugin configuration, or general troubleshooting would be greatly appreciated.

Desperately need help installing ffmpeg & mencoder

harpistic — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:21:17 -0700

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Hi,

I'm using Joomla on one of my sites and I urgently need to get ffmpeg, mencoder and Flvtool2 installed; I've been following all the online instructions and nothing is working, the config commands are failing and I keep getting 'no such file or directory' the rest of the time.

Please can anybody help with this? I'm happy to pay someone as I really need to get this working - thanks!!

Chantal

ZenPhoto error at Dreamhost =/

duquebilly — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:23:44 -0700

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Hi guys!

I`m having problems to install ZenPhoto in one of my domains at Dreamhost... I don`t want to use the One-Click Installer because I need to customize this system and then use it with wordpress...

What i`ve done until now:

- downloaded zenphoto-1.1.7.zip from zenphoto.org and unpacked;
- uploaded the entire folder "zenphoto" to root directory using FTP;

When i tried to access domain.com/zenphoto/ , it redirects me to domain.com/zenphoto/zp-core/setup.php and displays this error message: "No input file specified." !

What i`ve already tried to:
- edit RewriteBase at the .htaccess file using /home/username/domain.com structure;
- configure domain.com/zenphoto/zp-core/zp-config.php with database information;
- Set permission settings for the �/albums� and �/cache� to 777.
- Change the version of PHP to 5.2.x at "Manage Domains" (before this the page was calling cgi-sysyem/zp-core/setup.php or somthing like that).

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,
Anderson Clayton

Google ratproxy

coolgeek — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:01:21 -0700

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Anybody using this? Any DH issues with using this?

"A semi-automated, largely passive web application security audit tool, optimized for an accurate and sensitive detection, and automatic annotation, of potential problems and security-relevant design patterns based on the observation of existing, user-initiated traffic in complex web 2.0 environments.

Detects and prioritizes broad classes of security problems, such as dynamic cross-site trust model considerations, script inclusion issues, content serving problems, insufficient XSRF and XSS defenses, and much more."

Setting up phpBB3

Southwoods — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:41:50 -0700

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I'm using Dreamhost's One Click Install for phpBB3. However, when it comes to entering the database settings I'm running into problems.

I'm using the following information

For Database server hostname or DSN: mysql.mydatabasenamehere.com

Database name: I'm using the name I created that's listed under Database(s) on this server in the "Manage mySQL panel".

Database username: The user name under the User Panel. The same for WebFTP etc.

Database password: Same as above

I can't figure out what's wrong with the information I'm entering, but I receive the message "Could not connect to the database, see error message below.
Access denied for user 'myusernamehere'@'serverhere.dreamhost.com' (using password: YES)"

Any ideas would be great!
Thanks

smart thumbs installation

cheezewiz — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:19:18 -0700

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Can someone help me pleeeeease!

I have been trying to download Smart Thumbs and after I have downloaded and installed the install.php file per the installation instructions I get an error message saying "cannot create admin directory"
I have retraced my steps and have done everything the installation directions has asked me too and repeatedly I get this error message!
Does anyone know what I could possibly be doing, or not doing, to generate this error message and most importantly how can I fix it to complete the installation process?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!